Recorded answers
12,456 recorded answers
How to approach it
Approach the prompt as a chemistry problem hiding inside ordinary language. Begin with the outputs you could name in a sentence, then deliberately drop one level: which tissue builds it, from which precursor, under which enzyme, and what does the finished molecule get called in a metabolic index? The reveal here was plainly generated from a large compound catalogue, so breadth of coverage matters more than tidy phrasing. After a few safe everyday entries, push into pathways — lipid handling, steroid conversion, amino acid breakdown, sugar interconversion, inflammatory signalling — and give the systematic chemical name instead of the nickname. Keep every guess to a single substance, spell it the way a database would, and drop anything the body merely absorbs, receives as a medicine, or hosts from outside.
Get a hint
Body systems make a better map than single organs: digestion, circulation, hormone signalling, immune defence and waste clearance each leave distinct chemical traces that qualify as substances the body has produced.
A little more
Then move to process: whatever is built during synthesis, released during signalling, burned for energy or broken down for excretion is fair game, including short-lived intermediates that never reach an easily named fluid.
One step further
Aim for named chemical families rather than everyday words — acids, salts, alcohols, esters, sugar conjugates, glycoproteins and their carrier-bound forms — and include the long systematic names that only a metabolic database would list.
Reveal answers 12,456
- ABC transporterDeep Cut85points
- ABC-type oligopeptide transporterDeep Cut85points
- ABI gene family member 3Deep Cut85points
- ABR, RhoGEF and GTPase activating proteinDeep Cut85points
- Abscisic acidDeep Cut85points
- AcanthocyteDeep Cut85points
- Acantholytic dyskeratotic epidermal nevusDeep Cut85points
- AcanthomaDeep Cut85points
- AcetaldehydeDeep Cut85points
- acetamidopropanalDeep Cut85points
- Acetic acidDeep Cut85points
- Acetoacetate—CoA ligaseDeep Cut85points
- Acetoacetic acidDeep Cut85points
- Acetoacetyl-CoADeep Cut85points
- Acetoacetyl-CoA hydrolaseDeep Cut85points
- AcetoneDeep Cut85points
- Aceturic acidDeep Cut85points
- acetyl adenylateDeep Cut85points
- Acetyl-CoADeep Cut85points
- Acetyl-CoA acetyltransferase, mitochondrialDeep Cut85points
- Acetyl-CoA C-acetyltransferaseDeep Cut85points
- Acetyl-CoA C-myristoyltransferaseDeep Cut85points
- Acetyl-CoA carboxylaseDeep Cut85points
- Acetyl-CoA carboxylase 1Deep Cut85points
- Acetyl-CoA carboxylase 2Deep Cut85points
- Acetyl-CoA synthetaseDeep Cut85points
- Acetyl-coenzyme A thioesteraseDeep Cut85points
- Acetyl-coenzyme A transporter 1Deep Cut85points
- Acetyl-L-LysineDeep Cut85points
- Acetyl-ThreonineDeep Cut85points
- AcetylcarnitineDeep Cut85points
- acetylcarnosineDeep Cut85points
- Acetylcholine receptor antibodiesDeep Cut85points
- Acetylcholine receptorsDeep Cut85points
- AcetylcholinesteraseDeep Cut85points
- AcetylesteraseDeep Cut85points
- Acetylgalactosaminyl-O-glycosyl-glycoprotein beta-1,3-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferaseDeep Cut85points
- Acetylgalactosaminyl-O-glycosyl-glycoprotein beta-1,6-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferaseDeep Cut85points
- AcetylhomoserineDeep Cut85points
- Acetylputrescine deacetylaseDeep Cut85points
- Acetylserotonin O-methyltransferaseDeep Cut85points
- Acetylspermidine deacetylaseDeep Cut85points
- AcetyltransferaseDeep Cut85points
- Acid alpha-glucosidaseDeep Cut85points
- Acid anhydride hydrolasesDeep Cut85points
- Acid ceramidaseDeep Cut85points
- Acid phosphataseDeep Cut85points
- Acid phosphatase type 7Deep Cut85points
- Acid sphingomyelinase-like phosphodiesterase 3bDeep Cut85points
- Acidic leucine-rich nuclear phosphoprotein 32 family member ADeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring tracked obscurity rather than plausibility across 12223 recorded answers. Everyday entries — a hormone, a digestive fluid, a structural protein — drew so many identical submissions that they sank into the crowded tail, while names lifted from a comprehensive metabolic index rose to the top. The single 100-point answer, Lubricin, is a joint-lining glycoprotein most players would never reach, which is precisely why it was scarce and expensive. The 85-point band, with 11967 entries, is where the long systematic names live: (10Z,13Z,16Z)-docosatrienoic acid, (11R)-HPETE, (13Z)-octadecenoyl-CoA and dozens more fatty acid, carnitine and coenzyme A conjugates. These are genuine products of human enzymes, yet nobody writes them from memory, so few guesses matched. Only 201 answers scored 60, the consolation band for mid-rare picks. The lesson: the reveal drew on a catalogue of tens of thousands of compounds, and points rose with how unlikely a name was to be guessed rather than with how central it is to human biology.